coming up on our teeth thanks to edward snowden we now know facial recognition has become a big part of the n.s.a. surveillance the agency is collecting millions of digital images creating an enormous database of personal information more on that just ahead. it's not a bird it's not a plane it's a drone in the skies of l.a. the l.a.p.d. is set to receive two from the seattle police department more on the growth of police drone use coming up. and a new york liberal heavyweights gather to hash out democracy versus capitalism we go inside the left forum later in the show.

everybody it's monday june second five pm in washington d.c. and islands in france you're watching our team america. the ukrainian military has reportedly conducted an air raid in the eastern city of lugansk hitting a local administration building a local and secure protesters claim up to seven people were killed in the assault but the army denies targeting the city center parcs paul slayer is following the situation there. officials of the self-proclaimed for public of new guns say that among those killed are civilians we are hearing from them that at least five people have been killed and many more wounded and amongst those who are wounded injuries that are severe emergency personnel are at the scene we understand that they have evacuated the local administration building which has been in the hands of anti-government fighters for several weeks now at the same time they have ordered people in the vicinity of the building which is in the city same tough new guns to also be there on exploded shells that are lying around we are hearing from ukrainian authorities who say that they were not responsible for carrying out this

attack they say that they have been fighting on the outskirts of lugansk where they have been backing these anti government fighters at checkpoints on the perimeter somewhat even suggesting that the explosion was caused inside the building now i have been speaking with eyewitnesses on the ground it was difficult to establish communication phone lines are down at the same time there are sirens that are constantly being heard throughout the city center. i instantly realized that something terrible has happened when the dust cleared away i still full injuries and then dead bodies i sold three dead women and then today men none of the fighters were hurt all those killed are civilians i saw very clearly that there were two planes the first one came and then in about a minute another that opened fire authorities have also os residents to board up one room within their homes that can act as a bomb shelter so you so to get the sense that on the ground the feeling is that

the situation is going to deteriorate and deteriorate fast. that was artie's puzzler in eastern ukraine. the national security agency is collecting a massive trove of images that it intercepts over social media e-mails and texts somewhat you're so clear i can use them and it's facial recognition operations according to the new york times top secret n.s.a. documents indicate that the spy agencies global facial recognition technology has seen huge growth in the last four years millions of images are intercepted per day only adding to the huge database of personal information that government can have on individuals both american and foreign the worry many have is that there are few limits on these operations on the n.s.a. says the improved targeting could help track down terrorists civil liberties advocates worry the program seems to be operating in a legal vacuum we're here to talk more about this is john whitehead the president of the rutherford institute he's also the author of a government of wolves the emerging american police state which raises concerns

about the impact on americans constitutional rights in an era of expansive police powers and government surveillance sir thank you very much for joining me now in the article according to a two thousand and ten document the n.s.a. says it's taking a full arsenal approach that digitally exploits the clues the target leaves behind in the regular activities on the net to compile biographic and biometric information that can help implement precision targeting here's what most people want to know what qualifies as a target and how do average americans know they're not getting caught up in it is that i've been working this for years working with little agencies everybody's a target if you appear to be extremist you say the thing. you're going to be watching but if you lose facial recognition software they're going to be able. to create three d. images of human bodies almost all graphic images they're working with

a google search. which is going to help. the data in facebook. by the way has a program called deep face which now they claim that when they look at a crowd if they're looking for your face they not a seven point two five percent of the time there is if they can actually pick you up so your face so what we're facing is the n.s.a. there really is no limit supposedly the pfizer court is there the search for intelligence surveillance court is there to who protect us but. as the studies show nine i'm so the time they say yes to what the government wants so. i don't think i mean everybody i mean facebook is downloading to four point five billion images or uploading two point five billion images online so whatever you do out here folks your face is going to be recognizable and the key thing here is it violates our constitution the fourth amendment says you cannot do surveillance without probable cause and they don't have probable cause a watch near you well let's talk about this information on the n.s.a.

isn't the only government agency using facial and imagery the state department the f.b.i. and other state local and for some agencies have their own programs as well so how does the n.s.a.'s program compare. the n.s.a. has the most powerful computers in the world is the biggest spa in black ops agency in the world we don't know how many people work for them we don't know how much money they have of the ashkelon program that goes around the world we know they intimately work with the n.s.a. and me if you think google google is out announce it it's going to be launching one hundred eighty satellites worldwide to connect wildfire that everybody was directing and this is very clear is electronic concentration champ you will not be able to escape it now and do this and as they were standing here threatens to the f.b.i. select you know huge d.n.a. database which they will be working with the and they do the domestic surveillance by the way for the n.s.a. you're going to be able to create basically bar bodies with their data all of wrapping bodies if you've seen the movie minority report it's pretty clear whether

headed and by the way most that technology about minority report is already available to the government and that movie was sent in twenty fifty four so the technology they have it's been so very very rapid but let me say this privacy is gone to an electronic concentration camp and they don't give a hoot about the constitution well it's funny you mention minority report you know when that movie came out so many people how the far fetched the technology just isn't fair while it doesn't oh. yeah time will tell it unfortunately not a very long time they've got facebook they've got google they're working with those legs corporations they have their own facial recognition programs and what you have is basically a global corporate state you know who will be able to move and a lot of the question i always get legal while i'm not doing anything wrong why should i worry well martin luther king wasn't doing anything wrong when they took the f.b.i. collected seventeen thousand pages of information to use against him anybody considered troubling any might speaks out occupy people anybody out there

protesting peace activists are going to be targeted so get ready we're in it we deal with it. ok well one agency spokesperson i mean just to make the n.s.a.'s case on this the n.s.a. wouldn't be doing its job if you didn't seek ways to continuously improve perception in tracking people with possible intent to harm the u.s. that's according to an n.s.a. spokesperson fair enough but what about the rest of us are there currently any court cases that could be setting a precedent on legislating what is off limits and collecting images and other biometric data on people who aren't suspects you know the courts always lag behind you know in a constitutional order most judges don't even understand cell phones i've been in the cases the spring court there's only one person in supreme court that basically uses a computer they don't understand the technology so that's why the computer whizzes and hackers that work with the n.s.a. in groups like that they're moving so fast the courts i mean it's a secret spy agency we don't know what to do i actually talked to former n.s.a.

agents one told me john they're downloading a billion bits of information from the internet every month people just don't know what they're doing we don't know how many people work and we don't know how much money there are three governments don't operate like that we don't have a transparent government folks i'm trying to tell people we live in a police state it's time to wake up and go look a dick basically said at the great science fiction writer he says if that if this is coming like i think it is the only way you can get around it is to go to hide cheat make better spy quit letting flight back in groups like anonymous and t.v. programs like yours are important we just need to go fight back and use every available means we can peacefully to just speaking of the means to fight back how can the average person buy back i mean we spoke to one guy back in may who was taking his facial recognition system to a whole new level take a look at this he developed something called the new army personal surveillance identity prosthetic as a realistic three d. printed mask of his face made from pigmented hard resin as me seem to be going

a bit extreme but people are serious about protecting their anonymity what other choices that people have. i think they should be but drones are going to fly over america in about six months legally some of the girls will be able to pick up an additional twenty thousand feet they will have facial recognition software it's really very difficult i can see people telling me they're going to buy a house but you know you that the movie signs where they wore the aluminum. yeah yeah. yeah but at a certain point it's going to become so invasive what we need is our government these protect us our congress to pass an electronic bill right saying they should be doing it on i'm sure if they have evidence that some terrorists some crazy sure go after him but i'm not doing anything illegal why should they be watching me sleep in creating a three d. facial recognition package be to me at least four of them in the four of them are some evidence of illegality before they do these things they don't care about they

are our goal is a rogue government for well i suppose i suppose that this at this juncture with trying to get as you say get the courts to catch up you've got a petition or you know you're here legislators to get something on the books to at least stop this vacuum washington's operating at all right john w. whitehead president of the russian friends to take thank you very much sir. but ember of man on the roster at guantanamo bay detention center in cuba has just been dropped to one forty nine after the u.s. exchanged five taliban affiliated prisoners for the safe return of u.s. sergeant bowe bergdahl now critics are weighing in on his worthiness to be rescued and the wisdom behind the swap the twenty eight year old idaho native was the lone u.s. military prisoner of war in afghanistan when he was rescued in secret operation conducted by several dozen u.s. commandos over the weekend he was captured june thirtieth two thousand and nine after mysteriously disappearing after a guard shift at a u.s. base in afghanistan where the president didn't adhere to the usual thirty day

congressional notification requirement due to what national security adviser susan rice called the acute urgency of bergdahl is declining health the night before bergdahl is released five afghan men all held indefinitely since two thousand and two at guantanamo bay were released to qatari custody defense secretary chuck hagel said that qatar has ensured the u.s. that security measures are in place and the national security of america won't be compromised by their release however republican senator ted cruz weighed in with his thoughts on the prisoner trade. well look all of us celebrate with sergeant bergdahl with his family i mean looking at his parents there i mean that's emotional and it's powerful and at the same time the terms of the deal are very troubling why well for one thing how many soldiers lost their lives to capture those five taliban terrorists that we just released you know ambassador rice basically said to you yes u.s. policy has changed now we make deals with with terrorists he went on to say that he

found it disturbing that the five released men were acknowledged taliban leaders however he didn't mention that the u.s. had failed to charge them with anything during their incarceration speaking in the rose garden saturday evening president obama defended his actions that in the united states of america does not ever leave its men and women in uniform behind questioning the need for the speedy swap republican congressman buck mckeon chairman of the armed services committee said he plans to hold hearings about the bergdahl exchange sergeant bergdahl is now at a military hospital in germany receiving treatment before being flown home. in syria rep rebel rocket fire has killed fifty people on the eve of tuesday's presidential election opposition fighters are vowing more attacks to disrupt the vote are. reports the day of silence here in syria head of the country's presidential elections the first in the last five decades on tuesday the syrian authorities say over fifteen hundred polling stations will be opened in the capital

damascus with thousands obviously old across the country so serious. that seven years living abroad already because the ballots. in pursuing the city. hall to countries that are still here that many syrian refugees also took over the election as we crossed into syria through the lebanese border. cars and many many people streaming here ahead of the elections and we also know that. protrudes. not so good boys so we take the residents were expecting that has been a lot of criticism of the school so how do we vote millions of syrians that we would told country. to. find some raise to supply the governmental forces recent progress and success to remain house by militant groups which means people living in these areas will be able to make the choice to stay

the reasons small. bring peace and prosperity to this country it is worth a try original tea from damascus in syria. los angeles police department is set to receive a few free gifts from the seattle police department to aerial drones purchased five years ago with money from the department of homeland security are being handed over to the l.a.p.d. after several residents expressed concern over privacy violations parties making lopez joined me earlier from l.a. and she began by explaining how and why this acquisition came about. absolutely so as you had mentioned seattle p.d. had purchased these these drones for about eighty two thousand dollars five years ago they had intended to use them they used them a little bit but then residents started complaining about the by tensional for surveillance the potential for misuse with these drones and then the seattle city council actually started making ordinances against using these drones they wanted

to not only limit their use but also require the seattle police department to obtain warrants for any type of non-emergency use for these vehicles so the mayor and the police commissioner in seattle decided that it was too much kind of backlash going on over these drones which by the way are very very small and so they gave them over to the l.a.p.d. right now they're not in the possession of the l.a.p.d. they're in the possession of the department of homeland security this act was. happen for free because it was purchased from the seattle pull of the seattle police department purchased it for free using federal grant money from the department of homeland security so right now there are no plans to use these two vehicles in the los angeles area of los angeles is one of the bigger cities and that the federal aviation administration has not allowed use of drones in bigger cities due to heavy populations and heavy traffic use but that could all change

given the fact that the l.a.p.d. obviously just got these drones so this was essentially what you're saying is it was a transfer and the l.a.p.d. has to get f.a.a. permission to operate these but tell us about the drones what are they capable of and what does l.a.p.d. want to use them for. so as i mentioned his drones are about three point five pounds each so they're very small they have a camera on board that's a still camera also a camera on board that is a video camera that they can use for different kind of search missions the l.a.p.d. says that if they get approved to be able to use these and that's a big if at this point because it is los angeles that they will use them for swat missions dealing with a barricaded suspect or a hostage situation so the all days these drones also have some real camera for kind of night vision but right now i mean the battery power on these things these are not drones that you would see in the afghan theater for instance these drones

have a twenty minute battery powered lifespan they also can only operate within a very limited range meaning they have to be very close to the person that's actually operating that drone from the ground and right now that like i said the f.a.a. just isn't it hasn't given any type of approval for flying these machines no matter how small they are but again they won't be equipped with any type of a weapon or anything like that ok so they're essentially just a little lysol remote control with a camera but what do the privacy groups in l.a. have to say about that because there is some backlash what i understand is that correct. there is that inevitably whenever you bring up the word drone going to be some type of backlash right now privacy groups within los angeles have actually been plotting the l.a.p.d. for its efforts to keep this discussion transparent as possible meaning the acquisition and what not they have been very open about what they have them for what the steps are in order to be able to be able to use them and what not but

again privacy activists are inevitably going to be concerned so what they have done is raised a number of concerns about the possibility for surveillance as one really major example and also as one of your earlier guests john whitehead was talking about the possibility of adding something as simple as facial recognition and how that could really revolutionize the landscape in terms of drones now just to go over that process and what it's actually going to require in order to to be able to fly these drones over los angeles skies requires a review by the l.a.p.d. a review by the board of police commissioners a review by the public and then the f.a.a. has to finally grant that so there's a lot of steps so this isn't going to happen overnight we won't see them flying in the skies here tomorrow or anything like that but it is becoming a more realistic possibility ok well meanwhile ventura county not far off could soon be operating a drone of its own at its airspace near future tell us more about the about this

and how close is that to becoming a reality. so this is another one of those really small drones that can fit into the back of a car it's called a cube drone made by a company called aereo environment this one cost fifty thousand dollars what they're planning to use it for are things like search and rescue missions for training of police officers they said they would use it for if there was a specific package or if the weather was so bad that it was not safe for a helicopter with the pilot inside to be able to take off so they plan to use it for all of those this one is much closer to becoming a reality in been sure of that and then the l.a. one that we were just speaking about and the reason is that it is already gone through some of these processes the f.a.a. has already approved in order to be able to fly that was back in october and then finally what happened was right now it's going through an application approval process and once that happens ventura county can really be one of the first

counties in the country to have federal recognition for all support and f.a.a. support to be able to fly this oh well you know that could open up a whole new pandora's box but if they get the privacy laws on the books to make sure they're not flying over your house or you're trying to barbecue something take a look at what you're doing and hey maybe maybe people would have a problem but that remains to be same all right our to correspondent in our los angeles studio thank you very much as three day event for over the weekend activists swapped ideas how to bring comprehensive recovery to the economy something from which everyone not just the wealthy one percent can reap the rewards artes and assess it brings us more from new york. at the left forum in the big apple intellectuals activists and academics come together to think outside the box capitalism and democracy are not synonymous and as a matter of fact they've been on opposite sides of the each other since the advent of the republic this year's topic reform and or revolution as

a way to bring primarily the us but also the rest of the world out of stagnation if you don't give us reform pacification and placation which a lot of times it is you will get revolution. seven years into the economic crisis the wealth gap in the u.s. keeps growing with seals now earning two hundred fifty seven times the average worker's salary the recovery you read about in the newspaper really only affects the top five or ten percent of the american population and the statistics make that crystal clear. that the clash between the struggling ninety nine percent worse is the wealthy one percent is alive and kicking one percenters super wealthy people are not necessarily evil them per se but they're the beneficiaries of a system that is evil. justice for the majority of the population and a demand for accountability and truth brings these people together sacrifice your

popularity sacrifice your mainstream acceptance sacrifice your establishment terry and affirmation in the name of something bigger than you truth and justice from poverty to the prison industrial complex to money and politics the mission of the left for him is to debate and call for a new reality revolution comes down to requiring the defeat and dismantling of the repressive apparatus of the state structure that we're up against in this case of the capitalist imperialist states structure while up participants here agree that a different world is needed analyzing a strategy of how to get there is what brings. all together at the left forum here in new york city this year as well as every year and spicy chicken martini. and there's another uproar over police brutality in new york city where a fourteen year old was critically injured during an arrest the boy javier payne was with a thirteen year old friend when they entered a bronx area who go bar and allegedly started assaulting

a thirty nine year old man who had asked for a cigarette after pain was handcuffed by the police he fell through the shop's plate glass window resulting in serious injuries including a gash in his chest that required fifty stitches police tell reporters he fell payne claims he was pushed there are also reports that police initially refused paramedics request to remove paine's handcuffs for treatment now his family is speaking out to now saying the violence. fourteen years old going to have to do with the school year is going to have to walk down the one doing whether or not he can show up another police officer with the with the good life does he doesn't want to go outside he does these very deprived is very nervous and scared. there is surveillance video of the incident and the pain comes attorneys are asking witnesses or anyone who might have recorded it to come forward the bronx district attorney says it will investigate the incident and the n.y.p.d. will conduct an internal probe the police sergeant involved has been put on

modified assignment. and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now so i guess our the cast of the h.b.o. series silicon valley here's a part of what's to come. i also think another reason people maybe would like you because it's smart it's people who are funny funny or smart and funny as opposed to just like i do this is getting into capers and if he don't look at me immediately are you saying the doofus that just sloppy doofus is. right. or almost all incredibly handsome so that doesn't actually write i mean. you know it is the idea of starting your own business having something that is you were is building and making it pull yourself up by your bootstraps all those things and things that these guys have decided you whether or not these smoke weed and have no sense of personal space or you know fashion taste it doesn't matter they all care about sort of making something and becoming important and making their mark in american history which you know more and more is going to be about tech culture

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i have nothing against monty but we'll get to that in the minute first let's talk about how the biotech industry is now putting pesticide resistant gene technology into grass seed because apparently we must genetically engineer every living thing on this planet lawn care companies god has created a genetically modified kentucky bluegrass feed that is designed to withstand massive amounts of money santo's roundup herbicide so you can plant your lawn with these seeds and spray the crap out of it with a bunch of terrible chemicals just say don't get any weeds because god forbid you have any unsightly weeds in your lawn for the worst part is according to the folks that eco watch gots is doing this without getting any approval from the u.s.d.a.

by using some neat little loopholes g.'s seeds come under federal regulation when they contain genetic material from plant tap but got this cleverly using d.n.a. from other plants not bugs to create the new kind of bluegrass this way they are avoiding any u.s.d.a. testing and approval processes this way they can go right to the market with their g.e. grass the folks that eco watch warn that because of little grasses like pollen the grass can easily spread to neighboring properties but the gusts of the late wind and once it does the modified version can genetically merge with existing grasses including those that farmers rely on to produce organic meat in other words you can forget about that grass fed burger as a natural option so now all of our. laws are going to be genetically modified because we all needed that lush green carpet out there by our white picket fences in front of our mcmansion otherwise we haven't attained the american dream

conversely this lady in kansas city just dumped eighty tons of band over her lawn to build up the beach so she wouldn't have to mow our lawn anymore and everyone is calling her crazy why is that any crazier than dumping genetically modified grass seeds all over the place lawn i don't get it we waste massive resources that we can have stupid lawns and places like las vegas in the desert one a just because that the image were being sold there is no reason we shouldn't cover the landscape that depict the natural beauty of the land before we got there and started messing with it i never understood lawns and now they're going to become genetically modified mutants just like the rest of our organic surroundings i'll hate them even more tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident.

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their advertisements they're also responsible for such hits as the agent orange chemicals dropped over vietnam with a genetic modifications that might be killing off all the bumble bees but don't need drastic. monsanto's crowning achievement patenting seeds that they can what so that they can one day own the global food supply you might think owning the world's food supply while i was at sound familiar that's because dr evil came up with it in austin powers. and sure enough monsanto's a list celebrity status has grown in recent years to the point of being voted the most evil corporation in the world several years running seriously so what did the corporate run media have to say about the massive international protest against monsanto take a look. oh there are no quips there are those well. they had i think. well let's look

elsewhere let's check out their used to be corporate media where is glenn beck blaze is a wonderful network with great shows and great people please. bring back glenn beck . i think you're my best friend. when i was thirteen years old i got into radio and i didn't have a lot of friends my microphone became my best friend. i love you. but there was the head. i just so you never told the world the wildest police chases with a more coherent emotional throughline then glenn beck that your vices a troll his underwear hunched over a keyboard typing brain madeleine back with these be. your love all right point is only alternative media is talking about this even though

monsanto is taking a dump in our food supply president obama even put michael taylor at the top of the food and drug administration taylor is the former v.p. of public policy for monsanto that's like putting donald sterling in charge of the n w c. it's like putting lance armstrong in charge of the d.n.a. . like putting the westboro baptist church in charge of sensitivity training that's that's according vin diesel in his the lead actor in the canterbury tales performed in the original old english rights because that's like putting a boogie man in charge of underpants security you know so i pointed shaving in charge of a children's bake sale to raise money for poet nice with the rest of us live syndrome when they needed the orcas and more legs it's like putting glenn back in as lead funded near at an awkward social gathering clearly is not good with people

his best friend is a guy he's never met who sent a poorly worded e-mail it's like it's like that's all i got that stats all the things on earth that are as bad as putting the geo mole loving bumblebee killing sea battening gremlin did learn at the top of the. book monsanto is just the tip of the iceberg let's get into the rest coming to you from washington days. hey the belly of the basis is redacted tonight. well under exacted not. doing tonight i'm your host li cam now let's take the news from behind president obama announced he would end the war in afghanistan this year he said he's only leaving ninety eight hundred troops

and of course will still be drone bombing like we do in pakistan yemen and other countries we're not at war with how more happy to have to be for ninety eight hundred troops to count as peaceful but that's only not war when compared to how crazy we are all the rest of the time by that metric jared from the subway sandwiches commercials is sexy yeah he's sexy compared to the old jared. let's keep it in perspective. for the jared fan girls in the audience there i didn't mean it i mean it chill a an activist pompous burned five hundred million dollars of student loan papers thereby freeing thousands of young people from their chains of debt this guy's amazing and he's a rap name and he dresses like a magician who pulled off a massive magic trick where he made five hundred million dollars of student debt disappear right american a group of american magicians never do it with their stunts you know david leahy

david boyd are freed anyone from debt bondage remember what he froze in self he could have done that in solidarity with as commodes were losing their land on their way to life right remember rudy locked himself in that box for a month he could have he did he could have done that to call attention to the plight of puppy shoved inside boxes as so many christmas presents. flash hanukkah presents i don't want to be racist here but let's be honest you never get it it's called a poppy for the festival of lights all right instead it's like a picture of a poppy i did get g.i. joe. when i was little i just got joe. was a trick curator of a guy who wasn't accepted into the military because he had flat feet in the stocks . and then it gets better it gets better. as

well as david blaine could of could have done to him self underwater for reason he could have done it to raise concern for the orca whales exploited and abused at sea world or in solidarity with the now in danger of wet t. shirt contest and says it can coon region. he could he could good but he did none of those things he did none of those things david blaine teach each stunt to bring attention to david blaine if these guys these magicians to close to things we had to superheroes if they really wanted to wow us really wanted to blow our minds how about get money out of politics. and amend the constitution pounded talor do you crazy of power the military industrial complex copperfield located a wal-mart located a wal-mart without a visible bun crack inside. impress me. press me edward snowden where we head would snowden did an exclusive interview with brian williams this week and most of twitter using american said snowden is

a hero however that is in stark contrast because contrast to what most adult diaper using americans said they said what's twitter. but the important question is is the n.s.a. changing its ways following snowden's leaks or is it just business as usual for the largest surveillance infrastructure ever created in the history of humankind the answer that we go to the redacted from live with same sex. in the last year we've learned that the n.s.a. and its partners around the world are trying to collect it all. even sniff it all a term coined by the n.s.a.'s lesser known deputy director gary busey. keep up with unicef and its british spying partner g c h q rounds go hug coach who is scooping up users data out of the popular out of known as angry birds.

although that could be legitimate spying so here i am inside a neighboring birds game and i can see why the n.s.a. is interested in what's going on here i mean it's this isn't. fair ball is hurdling over my head explosions just devastation all around me and one can only imagine what might happen if terrorists are placed in suddenly good ideas to use technology to this. relation. to seventy bombs. still though he laundry list of offenses by the nation's top spies which force congress to take action and rein in these n.s.a. abuses well just want to be use sort of the. it's called the usa freedom act and it initially game the sport of this guy but after two weeks of close consultation with the n.s.a. and congress that resulted in major changes to everything in the bill except it's

patriotic usa freedom act to gain the support of this intelligence committee chairman mike rogers n.s.a. structures defender and friend with benefits who stood by as you can see even after leaked documents showed the n.s.a. was spying on him personally as part of a covert program called. fanboy the net so what exactly happened to the act they called freedom and what does the new freedom act do to our bill of rights luckily the bill of rights has a defense committee and i talked to its executive director it was scuttled gutted and closed door secret negotiations between the democratic white house and the republican leadership of the house of representatives and they basically pulled the rug out from underneath. and some very crucial definitions took it from being a measure that would at least meaningfully bulk mass surveillance of to laugh in a matter of data and ended up being a giveaway to the intelligence agency supporters say the bill does and the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of americans phone records by require you telecoms to hold the

records instead and requiring the spies to ask permission to obtain those records from a top secret court that says yeah ninety nine point nine percent of the time the bill further ends bulk collection by requiring the n.s.a. to limit its searches by using a specific selection term defined as a discrete term which is ambiguous as hell we have learned that if we leave any ambiguity in the law the intelligence agency run a truck right through that ambiguity to the freedom. is bald what kind of phone records. what about all the other stuff does the bill stop mass spying on completely innocent foreign populations absolutely as the bill stopped incident from breaking into private data links between google as we learned you know does the bit a little clues the backdoor search loophole that can be used to acquire americans communication since speculatively not it is the bill specifically outlaws psyops

used against activists and says nothing about it does the bill stuff just a kind of spying on people who are using angry birds it is not no no no no no no none of us. yes it pretty much gave the sport of code name ben boy three hundred. and up to the house so are reformers getting duped by the n.s.a. the n.s.a. lies every day to congress the press the american public they lie about the origins of the evidence they lie about the numbers of american washington that's too large for them to calculate this self-serving lie by the government computing power unmatched in history presuming the power to wiretap someone to be. democracy so in the future we can start by knowing agencies against the constitution we the people are the ones our government. agency to make sure. each reason you are but what about when the n.s.a.

saves the day and then we teach all the way. to go to school. where. i'm the former's eyes and i'll turn to the senate to have a powerful ally judiciary chairman patrick leahy but let's face it lying on the senate to make anything better is like lying on your camera man to pick you up at the airport on time and not have sex with your girlfriend i mean whether reformers like the a.c.l.u. have referred to the upcoming debate as the battle of the summer. well. they've got a shot. in washington d.c. samson productive tonight. yet. another against the first half of the show the ways and the real stuff for the second half don't go away.

i was born in the ukraine i grew up in a family of alcoholics as did many of my foster son's kids who had slept rough on the street since they were four years old some since they were two enough to know the ridge man where are you here again and now because of where i want to help. there was a group of kids standing by the road like you put the children here aren't even asking for food. to drink. so hundreds and hundreds of poverty stricken children dressed in rags. but i couldn't forget the eyes of this one boy came back a year later to find the little kid. a very big man. welcome

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world's biggest banks and investment firms there live in love and out of the okada living living like jay's a there there's not even any cilantro to keep them in line that's right there is sans the lanch. these as clowns who aren't even quiet about the fact that they're making millions while the rest of the world struggles to make rent the financial times published a leaked internal video message by bag co-head collin fan telling his bankers to stop rubbing their success in the world's faces here's a clip. you may not realize it but right now because of regulatory scrutiny all your communications may be reviewed being boastful indiscreet and vulgar is not ok i have a lot of patients on this issue. that's right that's why we don't make that up he's saying listen fellows cave pillaging the world just keep it on the down low right but it gets better we found

a redacted here every day that we found an exclusive follow up video another internal video instructing the employees how to behave check this out being boastful indiscreet told her it's not ok some of you may be unclear as to what that means so here are some words you are no longer allowed to use fraud friendly. him to let hate the predatory banker hate the game steal him like a villain with a gold tooth filling. the void. with. a moment a moment they. cannot resist the urge to brag do not do it in email instead we have placed bragging boxes throughout our office just like this to write down your posts place them in a box and we will lock them away look someone has already left never mind

you just wife themselves. the nuclear waste disposal facility in new mexico is meant to hold a highly radioactive nuclear waste for tens of thousands of years well we've made it a few decades and there's a leak nuclear waste disposal facility you had one job. and why why is it only it is because the highly complex algorithms are slightly off is that what it is though it is it is because of a massive tsunami rocked the facility no kitty litter it was kid the letter carrier in some of the drawings that hold radioactive ways we stabilize that waste with can you later and apparently we used the wrong kind of cat box material like folks at the end of the dead. we are monkeys with nuclear weapons right we are chimpanzees with adam bombs and the cat takeover of the planet continues. you can't deny

and deny they already have the media all right. can i have media yes you can i'm moving on you've heard of the n.f.l. throwback uniforms where they wear the old uniforms all turn to see has done the same thing except instead of uniforms they're doing throwback execution styles that's right they have brought back the electric chair which i thought was only used in the addams family but no and they did this even though a new study shows that at least one out of every twenty five people executed is innocent but tennessee realizes that the twenty first century times required nineteenth century punishment when asked about this tennessee governor bill has lamb said yes i'm going to have my staff members are going to run again i'm sure you've been read almost two hundred miles and he's the summertime tom. who have to watch moonshine for the governor. of crime and punishment

a man who was locked away for simply pirating movies has revealed that the president's cell phone at the prison itself shows high rated movies this is all i'm not getting this is all part of a continued imprisonment of the american population for small or nothing crimes in order to fill the beds of the privatized prison industrial complex but even worse the man said the movie shown to the inmates include the last five adam sandler films i'm now is that not a cruel and unusual punishment all right we claim the moral high ground and yet we have torture on our own soil look you can you can you can take away their freedom you can steal his dignity but forcing him to watch a blended that's not right on the right the right. a new north carolina law would make it a class one felony to discuss the secret chemicals used in hydro fracking those chemicals have been linked to contaminated drinking water birth defects cancer and everything else on your funtime bingo cards for those of you keeping score at home north carolina has now made it illegal to talk about fracking chemicals illegal to

prepare for climate change not kidding illegal to sing inside the capitol building not kidding and they even called the cops on jesus because he was homeless i'm not kidding they called the cops on a new statue of homeless jesus so here's the question is it still legal to leave north carolina. but in my advice is that right. i never thought i'd say this but pleaded the more progressive and open minded utopia of south carolina. they will create you with open arms as long as you're white. let's talk to crazy. recently the koch brothers have been in the news for many reasons not the least of which being that they're now the third richest people on the planet here to delve more into what they're doing with all that money is political correspondent jon about god on the. air. good good good good you're a loser so yeah i've been researching the brothers on line and i found this

diverse i think it's koch brothers and christopher coke or whatever man and tomato tomato go to the bus can we just get to the meat and potatoes of this they already . run what is it what all right is a nod to bush a diagram that lays out all of the areas of influence that the koch brothers have inserted themselves into it's literally the coolest thing i've seen in months how i said cool it's undermining our democracy yeah they're undermining democracy like pre-k. or rockstars they are the bruce springstein of right wing billionaires just instead of being a working class hero who has. the koch brothers are pushing forth and extreme bank streamers libertarian agenda they are there. is nothing bill kristol right the congress already have a hundred billion dollars the un estimates it would cost like thirty billion and a world hunger how much more money do you bastards want all over they want all the

monay brought and they want to own the united states government too i love these jews who post on i'm right what is a cult and post a veiled as a rebel i didn't say i was there like the koch brothers bankrolled a lot of politicians and think tanks well and the law is that's just a childs play a part of it cold cash has infiltrated the media public universities take grass roots organizations and even the supreme court the koch brothers are like the two boxer core of deregulatory probably heard here is that of being a prolific grabbers aspire millions these guys want to turn americans and all of you are gay just like the pox and cord yeah so let's start with the media manipulation ok well and this is really a minute first they'll fund a think tank then they'll have that think tank release a fake study that suits their ends then they'll legitimize that fake study by

having frauds or media people like rush limbaugh and michelle malkin say that is real it's genius they're like the matthew mcconaughey of getting people to deny climate change how big a star and. why you're such a real guess is the worst yet by worse you mean best i don't know. where these two guys have been doing to our institutions of higher learning alone is one president in our history do you know that they're helping find over two hundred seventy colleges and universities. that's crazy yeah and here's what makes them aces in my book they're not just given schools grants all willy nilly wild like the money comes with all sorts of sex it as. yes strings attached to it a little bit add yeah like what professors a school is going to hire which courses they can teach and even more research they can do this when hoover is more bad ass they kneel young righteously fierce performance of hey hey my my i live at farm eighty five. hundred off the earth that

what you missed them asked a pretty obvious that actually sounds like a massive threat to our country i sure hope that i'll let you know if that doesn't work it still all good because the coke store will have supreme court justices clarence thomas and antonin scalia attending their secret right wing fund raising campaign which is a wooden royal of the code of conduct where you know it is they judges as she was and this gives me a total rags because if that doesn't make the koch brothers the mama gandhi of hijacking democracy i do not know for the life of me what. to do this is a reaction and gandhi in the same sentence i certainly did in f.l. very right why do some thrown about the destruction of our country by these ass hats because i was smart enough lead to put them on my fantasy plutocracy. that doesn't exist plutocracy of course it does rule by the wealthy look at

a return are you kidding me i'm not the fantasy plutocracy it is real i was losing to a guy who had both rupert murdoch and the dude who invented the slab shop i know why now i'm crushing ed thanks to these two paunchy gandhi's last call cattle monologue they're not here out of the park like michael phelps. and on you crazy diamond. john we're going to talk about your analogies i want to know noam scheiber. as you know news channels fight to be the first to cover a story write it doesn't even seem to matter if they're getting it wrong or not just as long as they're the first but we've beat them all because using our patented future headline generator technology we have the headline from next week

first up finally good news for donald sterling he'll find this next week sterling to become a spokesperson for white power. sometimes the job finds the man that i run you know also next week twenty five thousand dollars co-founding deutsche bank bragging. have fox was asking for it so let's see what else we have a missing flight three seventy's discovered and wolf blitzer basement i know if i knew it whenever i do something i always check blitzer first next thursday you'll see this in the ohio news sampras cleveland man's cat clearly doing something a litter box worse than nuclear waste. well let's see next tuesday more news from north carolina north carolina law makes it illegal to discuss law that bans discussion of fluids. run don't turn to the ends all right moving on due to lack of bees the birds and the bees conversation now called birds and dogs.

and that seems to be frightening children a little bit but what choice do people have there's no more big. last headline for next week i actually found this most shocking of all nation agrees that's it right . there. that is our show you all shows online now go to youtube dot com slash r t america and facebook dot com censored back to the night i'm late can't get i did read.

the. what's happening folks i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set got a pack show for you today i'll be highlighting some of the most shocking stories of the past month covering dynamite explosions in the everglades and speaking with economist richard wolffe about the historic results from the european union elections and stay tuned you don't want to miss a moment alex break the set. a . very hard to take kindly. to. that fact that hurt their little. league.

from oakland to buffalo it's been a busy week all across the nation for a long for certain seem hell bent on breaking the law i'm talking about everyone from a sheriff's deputy in knoxville tennessee who needlessly choked out a twenty one year old college student the disgusting case of an officer in alaska sentenced to three years in jail after soliciting sex from a twelve year old. because there's just too much criminality to cover so let's just go over some of the most egregious examples of police misconduct from recent days starting with what could easily be the police abuse capital of america oakland

california where a security officer at a high school recently assaulted a teenager in a wheelchair here in the surveillance footage you see. the officer marshal mitchell pushing the wheelchair bound team down a school hall then suddenly without any apparent provocation the officer repeatedly attacks the teenager from behind the victim hears frenzies go martinez a seventeen year old high school student with cerebral palsy luckily he didn't suffer any lasting harm in following a phone call to the open police department the officer was promptly fired many times his abusive officers are never held accountable like those involved in this terrifying georgia incident where a nineteen month old toddler named bobo is currently in a medically induced coma after habersham county police raided his parents' home and threw a flash bang grenade into the cred where he slept the flash grenade was reportedly dropped right on the pillow next to his face before it exploded according to witnesses police were raiding the home of an alleged drug dealer unaware there were

children in the house but a general rule of thumb is if there's a playpen you should probably assume there are children now the tiny toddler awaits surgery to treat severe burns and trauma to his chest after one of his lungs collapsed and it's unclear whether or not he will recover or even survive and surprisingly the georgia swat team responsible for the grade continues to defend its actions concerning a raid over a single fifty dollar sale of methamphetamines according the washington post moving on to ohio or grand jury has indicted six cleveland police officers after two thousand and twelve shooting and car chase that left two people dead in this incident forensic investigators found that the officers discharged an astonishing one hundred thirty seven rounds of the vehicle in question only to find that its occupants were both on armed when the chase was over one officer michael brown stood on the hood of the vehicle to deliver fifteen more rounds through the windshield including the two fatal shots that killed the driver and passenger bro

now faces three to ten years for his actions against the armed suspects this sort of behavior is nothing new for that department. in the cleveland plain dealer there have been sixty one shootouts by police that have led to thirty two deaths at the hands of officers and just over a decade the high casualty count has now praga the d.o.j. to launch an investigation the department's use of excessive force and walls usually the n.y.p.d. that takes the cake for excessive force with regular beatings and policies like stop and frisk today i'm calling out miami gardens p.d. in florida which has become the new national leader when it comes to baseless interrogation. that's right according to an investigation by the miami herald over the last five years the department has made almost sixteen thousand stops making a single arrest this includes over eight thousand minors and almost two thousand senior citizens all in all the stops amount to over how the city's population you

haven't yet been stopped and frisked in miami gardens florida there's a pretty good chance you're next but the mainstream isn't too keen on reporting rampant police brutality in this country so it's up to us concerned citizens to speak out so maybe we should take heed from the department of homeland security and apply it to police not only say something if we see something but they'll miss something so cops can perhaps be held accountable to the people. now when you think of the everglades you probably think of prestigious wildlife and swamp like lagoon full of fantastical creatures you probably don't think about oil and natural gas drilling but that's quickly becoming the reality in southern florida you heard me right drilling in the everglades some of the most untouched wetlands in the country which is home to countless species of plants animals found

nowhere else on the planet is now being severely threatened by an oil and gas rush but some florida residents are taking this sitting down and fighting protect these new. preserves i was joined earlier by one such activist dr karen de wire of the stone crab alliance i first asked her to outline exactly how much land is being threatened. for our fifty thousand acres it's a huge huge number you know acreage that we're talking about it's massive and it's in some of the most environmentally sensitive areas in southwest florida it includes large portions of the florida panthers national wildlife refuge the fact i have to strand the picayune strand of spot sanctuary just to name a few it's not make it land and it's really important to realize that this is public land in it's in the heart of the everglades in it's in the midst of that thirty year thirteen billion dollar everglades restoration project and it's just

critical habitat for over sixty threatened species like the florida you know panther which is critically endangered and the red calculated woodpeckers you know the list goes on and on in these areas are also most importantly by don't watersheds and that means that these wetlands replenish the levels in the big cypress national preserve but also the national park and they also provide us with our drinking water they fill out those levels in our opera for hours so they provide all of southwest florida with its drinking water and i'm glad you brought up the biodiversity because i think that that's what people think of when they think of the everglades and how rich it is and wildlife and animals i mean how much of that wildlife would be at risk even just in the process of exploring for oil not even to mention if there's a spill. right it's critical habitat. really all of the creatures that are living there because you're talking about tanker trucks you're talking about

infrastructure you're talking about bringing in pipes access roads so even if we're just talking about surface impacts it will be impacting for instance we have one storks nesting we have the florida camp there would be the most critically endangered that's one that everyone's really concerned with because their population is only one hundred to one hundred twenty individuals remaining so we're taking further land away from that and really don't have nowhere else to go they will only live south of the clues the hatches river and you know very small area they will won't really cross that river and head out nor so it's it's not a good scenario we could literally be driving them into it's extinction by taking away their habitat the method of exploration is called the really big geophysical seismic survey and i have no idea what that as i was wondering if you can break down what that consists of. well actually we've been focusing on the exploratory

drilling by danny hughes the seismic testing is something new that for the one hundred three hundred fifty thousand acres in the summit two thousand and three hundred thirty four thousand acres is in the big cypress national park it sell. they're going to be using dynamiting. on one hundred fifteen thousand acres to calla oil industry is going to be using that but burnett oil will be using this three d. imaging which is vibrational thumper trucks i believe that's what you're talking about how they have these massive dump trucks and they will be going over the land and literally making cracks and fissures in it so that they can check for all yell and so the seismic testing is to locate the oil and then they come back in and drill for it wherever they find it so these are very invasive techniques especially the dynamiting it's just not at all friendly as you can imagine setting off all

sorts of dynamite and then they have they don't have plans to fill up those holes afterwards are just going to let them be and let them kill even on themselves so you know we have the black indigo snake smaller sorts of creatures that can't get out the way that can't you know avoid human traffic or whatever they're going to be endangered as well as a very in the days of karen a big concern that you've also brought up is the chemicals being used in the oil and gas extraction i want to break down some of those chemicals and the types of the fact that they can have. well see that's another difficult point to target because they're actually trade secrets in florida they don't have to reveal what sorts of chemicals you're using or what sorts of concentrations as well so that's all wrapped around in secrecy but we know from what they're using in other locations that benzene is a carcinogen you have tolly and you have all sorts of strontium in the permanent shell of the d.p. the state will warn you that

a lot of these elements are radioactive they call them naturally occurring radioactive elements norm's they're not in all the harm they're very harmful and hurtful so if they're going to frac they can use up to eleven thousand gallons of chemicals per well so we're talking about enormous quantities of chemicals and no monies also unknown chemicals going into you know through all our operators so the risk for a pipe breaking a large cement failing or you know any of those casings not holding are really great and the risks are just too great because i don't you know about southwest florida but they've been drilling for a long time down here since then i do forty's but they haven't been getting out much oil at all so in terms of portion ality the benefits versus the risks really the benefits just aren't there they have been getting almost no oil for decades now they're coming in as you mentioned with all these sorts of extreme extraction

techniques you know the dynamiting the sump or trucks the horizontal directional drilling the acid cracking. if they need to hydraulic fracking all these things are legal i know that there are some state legislators who are also speaking out where does the fight stand right now in terms of florida legislature and what can we do to stop this drilling paren. well we actually need a ban on it stream extraction in florida it's not enough just to get a ban on the. fracturing because we have a limestone geology most likely they're going to be using acid cracking and other sorts of extreme extraction techniques not so much the hydraulic fracking though they could do that as well so what we need is a ban we need our legislators to immediately get on board and propose a statewide ban. locally you can also have the commissioners try to come in with a band as well. i don't little bit hesitant to you know just say i think we should

have no new oil drilling at all down here because the everglades are far too valuable and our water is far too more valuable down in florida because you know water fuels everything from agriculture to our multibillion dollar tourist industry it's what florida you know relies on it's our lifeblood. i was anti fracking activist dr karen dwyer the stone crab alliance coming up i'll talk about the absurd reaction from the m.s.m. over the release of a u.s. soldier. would you like me to let you comedy news and some. comedy news to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the dad. like a vampire plunging into the next in the corporate elite billionaire freaks well they're going. well that's what you get with my new show projected tonight.

it seems like nothing grips the mainstream media more than a feel good story about american soldier yes i'm talking about twenty eight year old bowe bergdahl and u.s. soldier who was captured by the taliban while serving in afghanistan five years ago now over the weekend president obama secured a deal for his freedom in exchange for releasing five get the detainees to qatar but like everything in washington the story quickly morphed from good news into a political wedge issue for republicans and democrats to spat over whether bergdahl is a hero or traitor. by keeping its promise to not leave any american behind on the battlefield the obama administration says it is kept the faith with our troops but a growing chorus of lawmakers tonight asking at what cost looks to me like a desert or

a traitor or both and why the obama administration would give away five terrorists to get him back is kind of beyond me the idea that these guys are going to cutter and cutters going to make sure they never get out so attack us after they we know that they've attacked us or been involved in attacks on us we know that we jail them and they're i'm sure they're not happy about that. so you know he's putting us in jeopardy is not it is pretty obvious that we have never done this before and now we have set a person the president has set up for us. actually buck i think reagan was about president back in the iran contra days when he gave weapons to extremists within iran in exchange for american hostages but amazingly even back when vandal was initially captured mainstream pontin's were going as far as calling on the taliban to disappear him. if he walked away from his post and his buddies in wartime. i don't care how hard it sounds as far as i'm concerned to tell me bowen can save

us a lot of legal hassles and legal and legal bills wow no words there interestingly this entire mainstream debate seems to be ignoring the fact that the us military code of conduct states that the government will use any practical means to contact support and gain the release of prisoners of war but the diversion could have something to do with bergdahl views of the war which are radically transformed once he experienced it firsthand a rolling stone article by the late michael hastings the last e-mail bergdahl sent his parents before being captured said quote these people need to help get what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and they are stupid that they have no idea how to live we don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks we make fun of them in front of their faces and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them i'm sorry for everything the horror that is america is disgusting that was the last bangles parents heard from

him before he walked off base and tried to walk to pakistan unfortunately he never made it and was use instead as a negotiating pawn by the taliban for the next five years and here we are today with five guantanamo prisoners being transferred in exchange for bergdahl safety although probably face a ton of legal issues for quote deserving his station after the circus subsides and while m.s.m. anchors latch on to the sensationalist drivel about the soldier being an anti american traitor you will hear them analyzing his words and the horrors he saw that made him desert in the first place but that's not all the corporate media is ignoring c. today the supreme court rejected a very important case by new york times reporter james risen the highest court in the land refused to hear risings appeal paving the way for the justice department to prosecute the. as for refusing to testify against an alleged source in his book the reporters have always had the right to protect their sources in fact that's the foundation of investigative journalism this decision sends

a clear message to journalists everywhere that obama's war on whistleblowers and the press at large is on full blast you know you would hope that this unprecedented crackdown on press freedom would be plea concern even mainstream anchors but i guess the inaugural don't have much to worry about and speaking of risin he an investigative journalist more poydras just broke another story based on the documents released by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and ladies and gents you might want to reconsider those daily selfies you post even on private accounts because the n.s.a. is probably using all of those profile pics as a mug shots yep eavesdropping goons are plucking pics and entering them in a giant facial recognition database is now it's probably not a surprise to know that the state department and local law enforcement agencies already have the technology on a smaller and less accurate scale the data minus their passport license and visa photos but the n.s.a. is ability to use troves of private information on instagram facebook and twitter

is unique and they're collecting millions of images from around the world every day for quote tremendous untapped potential and unfortunately no privacy laws exist to protect this type of data so while the corporate media obsesses about whether or not snowden and bergdahl are heroes or traitors once again they're overlooking what drove these acts of conscious dissent and even more importantly the implications this growing war on journalism has on their own jobs. last month europe's stunning shake up of the status quo after millions of citizens went to the polls in the european parliament elections nearly one out of five seats were won by. parties that ran on platform into a deep on certainty about the future stability of the european union furthermore

far right and far left parties made significant and historic gains indicating a deep mistrust of current european economic and political institutions so here to discuss the role that economics played in these elections is a connoisseur professor emeritus at the university of massachusetts richard wolffe always amazing to have you on richard thank you very much so richard across europe and particularly in the u.k. and france voters came out in droves for anti european union parties what do you think are the main factors that could be attributed to the results. well i think there's a short term and a long term set of factors the short term factors are these europe is in an economic crisis rather like that of the united states it wasn't supposed to happen it has hurt more people than anyone imagined possible it wasn't supposed to last and we're now in this sixty year and the europeans like americans in the main are angry at being plunged into this crisis which was not of their making and they're angry at the government for the austerity program that not only has hurt the mass

of people who didn't bring this crisis but hasn't worked to get the europeans out of this crisis that sort of the short term anger that's been building in the electorate across europe in the longer run they have a sense that the european union which they believe would be a unification that would help all europeans has actually been managed in such a way to use the metaphor from the united states that it has been wonderful for the one percent and very costly for the ninety nine percent and europeans overwhelmingly left and right are angry bitter and this was a chance to use the ballot to protest what has been going on in that continent and they certainly did that richard. you just returned back from france let's break this down a little bit more specifically by country and national front party a far right party led by marine le pen won twenty five percent of the votes the

largest share in the country what economic conditions in france are creating such resentment toward the e.u. specifically. well that the irony and the interesting thing about france is they have not suffered as much as many of the other countries that are in the headlines more often in other words they haven't had the kind of breakdown that greece has had or portugal or spain or italy and so on so even though they are not as bad off they have none the less seen and after a free of their job opportunities high levels of unemployment an austerity program doubly bitter in france because of the current government a government that is completely socialist the socialist party won this senate won the national assembly and won the presidency so the socialists who won all those elections over the last couple of years promising not to continue the the austerity of mr starr cozy before them hard in fact the betrayed the public continued the

austerity don like everyone else in europe and this was a chance for the french voters to say we don't like it since the government doing it was socialist they couldn't go to the left to express their point of view so they went to the right they voted for a party whose basic position is you could fix the problems of friends if you only took it out on the immigrants and this is of course a terrible theoretical mistake it has never worked in the past it is a way if you like of scapegoating somebody getting the anger of people about an economic system that isn't working well and getting them to focus instead on the immigrants that have been brought into the country who really are most of the time . even worse victims of this economic crisis than all the native for a while i guess that explains nigel for origins popularity in the u.k.

who said that he feels uncomfortable living next door to a romanian let's talk about the far left which also saw some historic gains most specifically in spain and parties such as the united left party for them as party received about eighteen percent of votes why did spain see kind of the opposite result as the u.k. and france did. well again it's because the left was the way that the spanish people expressed basically the same feelings that the french people have anger at the status quo all anger at both the short and long run development of the european economy basically to help the one percent at the expense of the ninety nine percent but because spain had a right wing government in power whereas france had a left wing government in power the anger of the people when left to show that they didn't like the right wing government in spain just as they went to the right to show they didn't like the left wing government in france and in spain it has meant

that the equivalent there to the occupy movement in america it's their call the indignados of the the indignant people they are the base that produced this day most which is weak and it has now suddenly emerged into spanish politics in a powerful way but there's another country that demands even more attention here in the united states and that's greece in greece the furthest left major party in in their politics series by ne came in first and if that election happens in greece in the next year or two which is quite likely they will likely be the number one party which would mean that for the first time since this crisis a major european society will lead to by people will be led by a party one of whose slogans is greece can do better than capitalism and so we're seeing a growing challenge in europe to the economic system up to this or that detail but

to the system as a whole and that is going to change european politics and that's going to echo in the united states as well right and i think the world is also pretty shocked to see you know even though there is a small number of seats still overt neo nazi fascist parties greece's golden dawn germany's national democratic party how is it possible that these parties messages are resonating with voters in germany and france and you expect their message to continue to succeed in future elections. i think when you have the collapse of what has been running a society for a long time in greece they had two parties rather like the republicans and democrats in the united states and they took turns running greece those parties now are blamed for the catastrophe there is in britain the success of the empty european party was a smack at the cameron government a conservative government that is also blamed for being this way and against the holland government in france and so on you're seeing

a powerful groundswell when that happens when all the old conventions of what seemed normal society are falling away because the crisis is roiling the feelings of people making them question an economic system then you get folks that are frightened by the new directions by going beyond a dysfunctional economic system and they react that's why we call them reactionary they want to hold on there are afraid of change even though they don't like what's going on for them blaming immigrants blamey europe reasserting the old traditional values including a fascistic rail of brazen of a great leader is a way for them to go it's going to be very interesting to see how this is going to translate into the us elections coming up unfortunately at a time which are about to get on again and analyze all of that thank you so much

richard wolffe really appreciate it. that's our show you guys join me again tomorrow to break us that all over again.

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a family of alcoholics as did many of my foster children. thank you to have slept rough on the streets and seen a four years old of some since they were two enough. to float gracefully. like an english gentleman. you know in africa. when we started feeding them in the streets and became the biggest children's rehabilitation center in the whole of the former soviet union. jack able. to reach them. that way friendly to home about i'm only going to be killed i'm healing and i have sword to do i built a good. kid in there because when i want to help people what did i do my disposal to lie about. this would have more than one what i was so on my way

him almost brought me to. a group of kids was standing by the road with plastic bottles just asking for water to drink. my sons lived in basements and they were hungry but in the streets they could scrounging beg for food and they'd get some of the children here don't even ask for food i just asked for some water to drink but that has. nothing to do. with it i'm not out of my that i grant you that i did not. go to riot the things i saw made my heart play the whole story. but it was one of the west myths that get spread around us that africans are told just because they are lazy and idle you try working as hard as them because they will try going five kilometers back and forth every day to get enough water just to live back and forth

. even if we haven't brought much food just a bit of maize to little we have managed to bring still means that they'll have something to eat at least for a few days. yet no. people cannot get enough what our people cannot plant even food because they have no rains . to push it all somebodies worked out that with the amount of money they could spend every year in the us alone you could supply the whole planet with fresh water . that hasn't rained for a year and a half pretty much this is all that's left of a huge river. if anybody dug a well here it would have a miraculous effect he would guarantee the lives of hundreds of children over the next fifty years.

this is my first visit to africa with any of my adopted sons. three of my foster kids have come with me and i'm going to start doing what they can to help. the i just left. good to see my sons doing something like this. i see them falling into the trap of constant whining and moaning. my life is i used to be an orphan. then he's there were times when i had nothing to eat three waste contain this raid

garbage bags said. i think we could find to eat i'll never forget this one boy's face i could see despair and helplessness in his eyes but the terrible thing is it's i just can't help him at the moment i can't do anything about it and some are oh he could be dead. not living on the streets we just smoke cigarettes sniffed glue and drink vodka. i could go four to five days without food because we didn't want to eat after sniffing glue but once the drugs were off we were famished. and we go to the market asking for scraps kind ladies at the stalls would give us a sense of sausages and bread crusts. i remember that i had to walk barefoot the whole summer because i had no shoes i couldn't believe it when the

skin of my toes cracked open but when i came to africa i realized that children here never have any issues at all. if they're not i don't know the name yet. well deal just this much feeds a family. a great. i know you had a difficult childhood but even that wasn't as bad. as i answered the girls are sure. there are no english and neither do i. i have a question for the she how do you live here without light. but even worse they don't have what no wife i know enough. to be honest i'd say this almost looks like the set for some blockbuster movie about a remote tribe. again just like you said it's a roof for the what is it. there's a door. they've made

a bed. earlier met. says. i need to just sleep on a leather scrap bed for the night. in the library the lot of children street kids who died from drug abuse. so i'm used to coffins and death i'm sorry but what i've seen here is just overwhelming i've got it well. this is a pretty cool loveless children. cool place. because

. we're giving out blankets this evening. that one solves a problem this is just all desperate reaction to a desperate situation. what is to give children shouldn't have to sleep like this should be. my job to get them going there laddie i want to see you know a light a light is a night the river has never seen this before one of them a blanket you have to give one to each of them all they'll just tell you a pods so repeated shreds in the blink of an eye some will stop you from behind enough will be that they don't know what they're doing when the high on blue. blue they just go crazy for no good field on the sea i believe what i have shore dreams sounds there was shameless when will the money there will stray bullets can you see is there

a good deal of groove on this street through. for now here is a few grid books true religion of one of them. again i don't think i want to adopt all children's room for sure. because it's pointless making comparisons compared to them we had it so easy yeah really. oh. yeah. i remember sleeping under market counter it was freezing at least niceties you can find basement staircases in manholes but there's nothing like that here that's why children sleep rough on the ground. you get the some light and some light over there is good for give us a sense. of warmth. will run them up and take them as they sleep takes. the only stuff in

my home city we just started rescuing them from the streets whether they wanted it or not it doesn't matter what they think they want when they're. old children need is a decent place to sleep and have someone to take care of them. even . go get your friend right. let's go to the classroom. there is a god here when i was twenty three and now i've been living here for five years and they've gone. we don't want. when i was

traveling to africa for the first time i had a feeling that there was somebody waiting for me. and they were just playing in a market in the streets on the road. well literally saving all this children from starvation and. yeah it's a parasitic disease especially jiggers are very common here in central africa chosen still lost it's caused by a little sand fleas they jump up onto the feed and lay their eggs in the skin. the children are always walking around barefoot in the sand. from the eggs they break out onto the surface of the body ripping the host skin on their way out so we just use a regular syringe needle to scrape out the larger and sterilize the wound. but

also to know if we help in the children's home which we around like a big family. spend all our time with children they only communicate with the locals at school and they're with us for the rest of the time. they even call us mommy because we're like a family to them. they have a bigger portions than the adults sometimes they stand up and their bellies are sticking out where you go or what a big belly and they're like yes because. my youngest one recourse is always hungry me out it was because i knew. it was. not enough lead reading because. i don't believe here any time soon. this children are like my.

i mean if i can move when they finish their studies and start working i'm going to feel more relaxed. plus it's just mad now i just feel that they need me and i can just leave them here because i've lost my heart and i was. hurt because i'm. german first visit i saw hundreds and hundreds of hungry poverty stricken children dressed in rags all the pictures that i took one in particular stood out i couldn't forget the eyes of this one boy i couldn't get them out of my hands because stab was stuck in my mind.

i came back a year later with a team of friends to try to find the boy. my dear i. a body blow for humanity i. will see a lot of. good and happy. yes. i believe him yes. i got a new. point of spears big bad job. there is the suit be it right. over. did you know the price is the only industries. civically mention the

constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our press simak we've been hijacked trying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one still just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem try rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing up to find a job ready to join the movement then walk a bit. i know c.n.n. the most n.b.c. and fox news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment

to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the might think. of. goods because one whole attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. to be coming back. at our teen years we have a different pretty. good though because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys talk to the jokes will handle the various stuff that i've got to.

one of those who are here is a good boy. yes. i have surprise for you. sounds. real. right here if it. was homeless children why do you run from what you know that they will grow on the street but this is true of. one of them right here and you let me introduce. you to not going to talk about it but i made the second second. brother. so dear brother

i never had any brothers like this dark skinned you mean little black brother little black brother. show for them all you to want to go and do something a somersault or something. on the first day he was always at my side i wouldn't let go of my body off to new he'd already started pushing the other kids away from me with his own but. it was as if he felt some kind of ownership over me. like that was how i came by one more foster son that made him i said. you. will have your restaurant it'll think about tonight thing running around squealing he's clearly been on store the. yes.

if i could come to a region in kenya as border with uganda. it's rare for white people to visit here and there's not much medical aid around here either but there aren't any hospitals around it's another. thing to. setting up a public health clinic we've come with

a group of doctors who will provide medical help for most. of us where we see this pretty straight kids are the best kind of volunteer here in africa because they're all immune to infection some would be afraid but my boys when get infected i'm right yes that's it. right. that they can she go to these a mites that live in their beds get under their skin and to weigh up the flesh treat it by rubbing a special equipment into the skin when the skin gets soft the bugs are scraped a little girl is a very painful procedure and around here. everything from the house yes yes yes. yes as a. they're going to burn everywhere so. that's terrible or wow wow wow look

there on the next head of feet everywhere and see what we can do the work presumably will have to sort out everything from their homes ole bedlinen. let's check a house where they live. feed them for a little girl. and. the police go look this is the home this is the bed where you well i'd say my sons are more comfortable when they slept in basements. so we came here last to you. come to us and if you give us this house. i know my d.c. i i may he see get away but to not. go because he will have. but now top end in mind if the money put into law and i don't

know how full we'll find the way. what we can do a good place so much. but if it's easily curable we'll take them with us and go straight to the hospital. they. run saying. it's. good. for. you. i don't have that.

this was a rule that there are a lot of all phonies here in jerusalem some must come from samson rubbish dumps and if there was a prisoner one who'd ever pay for them. no one ever gives them so much as a penny for food. but the summer months if you went to centers like this it would be very hard for them. and this is really it was the best place we could find and it's a world away from sniffing glue on the streets they have discipline if they have lessons he's already learned to read and write and countenance are plenty of. them familiar who were who were. feet mind there mr record dial. were. you will you do when you.

know who you are who you are you know you was it was the will of the was done how many months or years sleep in one but. three. three in one breath. how many as sure as here in wa in one room this poor kitty yet didn't. aid children. to much this is what they sleep on it's fine rather they lay it down to sleep on it just like that will spill. he's the big guy yeah he's fine. he's lucky because somebody is taking care of him

somebody is thinking about him because i'd love to pack it away in my case and take him home but sadly they'd be huge legal obstacles and financially it would be difficult to. will do what we can to help him in the future when he finishes school will help him go on to higher education so he can get a decent qualification and find a good job someday god willing i hope to come here with my sons to his wedding. i just can't contain myself this is so exciting to follow kids from the streets choosing clothes for this step brother homeless african child something really special about that don't you think. hillary hillary. do like. this. when you try to. oh.

when i have my own family i want to adopt a boy. because if we don't do that. i feel sorry for these kids and looked them in the eyes and can see that they need a father and mother they need to be cared for just like i did. they actually lived on the street who slept on concrete with just a blanket around them. and really unusual for someone to rescue street kids here. it also makes me happy to see someone making a kind of connection with them. what

is a way of preparing an amazing surprise for hillary school of going so far little just for shots on a night and day. i dreamed of showing him giraffes elephants and all kinds of other animals i'm going to give a prize to the person who's first to spot a giraffe you know obviously it goes without saying it's going to be hillary. get away with a good one i told him we've got to leave after all first visit here he had a fit he genuinely went into shock as well when we couldn't get him to come around

for forty minutes and he wouldn't say would itself but now he believes us when we say that we'll be back he knows that we'll never leave him forever that's what happened with my foster sons back home and that's what'll happen with the youngsters here as well as we're going to see a lot of changes for the better. we

welcome aaron nate and abby martin two of the two of the coasts on the our team network. it's going to give you a different perspective give you one star oh never i'll give you the information you make the decision don't worry about it i'll bring you the work it's a revolution of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness and frustrated with the system it's very much your problem she would be described as angry i think i'm a strong no other single. aside. i think it kind of can. do. all that. much and i've actually sick for politicians quite a lot. about how. they're

just too much. of a side. up. this was in the washington well it's a list of the entries being suggested in the list of numbers among the many candidates for the prophecy of current issues actually back to and doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer based in india is fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a race america's the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but one might give real alternatives before it's time to working toward the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes problems for.

think. the really going to do is go did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy schreck health risks. are going to go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on we go beyond identifying the truth rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing america ready to join the movement then welcome to the. hill on time arbonne in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. earlier this morning e.p.a.

administrator gina mccarthy formally unveiled a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by thirty percent by two thousand and thirty one of the details of that plan what kind of impact will it have on the push for a global climate change policy more on that list also during the late one nine hundred sixty s. nearly nine hundred seventy s. the man known only as the zodiac killer terrorized the san francisco bay area killing at least five and maybe as many is over thirty people zodiacs identity has been a mystery for decades but now a louisiana man says that is father was the killer ever finally found out the truth about one of america's most notorious mass murders the answer later on in the show .

you need to know this the obama administration is taking its bold new step yet in the fight against global warming earlier this morning the environmental protection . an agency of the e.p.a. and baled a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants by as much as thirty percent by two thousand and thirty the proposal which is part of the climate action plan president obama announced last year will be open for comment for the next one hundred twenty days and if all goes according to plan will go into effect one year from now in june of two thousand and fifteen individual states will then have until twenty sixteen to put together their own regulations to meet the e.p.a. guidelines states refused to do so the p.a. will write their rules for them sort of like obama care the so-called green clean power sunni clean power. our plan will not totally end global warming that much is obvious but it will go a ways towards american a path to a greener future something e.p.a. administrator gina mccarthy said this morning we have

a moral obligation to do. although we limit pollutants like mercury arsenic sulfur currently there are no limits on carbon pollution from power plants our nation's largest sources for the sake of our family's health in for our kids' future we have a moral obligation to act on climate when we do we'll turn risks of climate into business opportunity will spur innovation in investment and we'll build a world leading clean energy economy. given all the sturm and drang around this this may or may not turn out to be a big deal power plants are the source of nearly forty percent of all american carbon dioxide emissions and any cut in the release of these toxic gases into the atmosphere especially one that could give the u.s. more leverage in international climate talks is a good thing its plan will also help us transition to more renewable sources of

energy like wind and solar course not everyone is happy that president obama is taking action to save our planet republicans are already calling the e.p.a.'s proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions by thirty percent a charge trailer a defacto enters or tax speaker of the house john boehner for example bashed the plan in a statement released earlier today he said the president's plan was rotch one or more for certain for i don't describe what americans are still asking for a withdrawal and here he is proposing rules that ship jobs overseas for yours to call are going to already pay more for everything in areas condemning them to hard bills and lower incomes after he leaves office so is the president's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions are really the job killer that republicans like being are saying. or on the other hand does it not go far enough in taking down the fossil fuel industry and how will it affect the president's decision making process when it comes to the keystone x.l.

pipeline joining me now for more on this are margret a strand executive vice president of public citizen and paulo activist and author of numerous books including his latest the impossible will take a little while margaret paul great to have you're going to be thanks for having us thanks for joining us we're going to let me begin with you we're talking about cutting the c o two levels thirty percent by two thousand and thirty but they moved the starting date from this year back to two thousand and five apparently in deference to industry back in two thousand and five we didn't have natural gas at half the price that or does i mean today it's half the price and was then so you've got all these power plants that have already converted to natural gas we've had a recession that slowed down the growth of things and there's been a massive increase in particular just the last six years in the installation solar and wind so is this as big a deal as as you know. the republicans or the world is ending there are some on the

democratic side saying just curious your take or is it a big deal that yes this is probably the most important thing the president can do in terms of tackling climate change. as i think you mentioned forty percent of our emissions come from the power sector and so if we're going to have a fighting chance if you look at the emissions from the united states we have to go after these emissions we should have started a long time ago no doubt about it what's interesting is that actually since two thousand and five we already have reduced our emissions by fifteen percent so what's clear is that we have seen that with or without e.p.a. regulations without action on climate if you will from the administration emissions are already going down you've seen more cost effective new energy sources. coming onto the market natural gas sort certainly but also wind solar new appeals efficiency and so forth so it is a big deal that was my point we're already halfway there why not start it at twenty

fourteen well we certainly and will be working with administration and many colleagues over this process period think that we can go faster and we can have aggressive more aggressive goals that's what science tells us. and clearly we have the technology we have the workforce we have the skills to do that so we think that we can certainly be much more bold in our goals at the same time the fact that the president is out there and starting this conversation is incredibly important and we're not going to rise that you have the chamber of commerce out there saying you know this is going to be the end of civilization as we know if they do that with every environmental and public health regulation well and then again on the other hand one hundred twenty eight this is from a press release from serious one hundred twenty eight companies and forty nine investors managing eight hundred billion dollars in assets today sent letters of support to the obama administration and to the senate and house majority and minority leaders letters reported by the non profit sustainability advocacy center

series so you know there's there's there's some heavy hitters on both sides actually paul you've been in you've been active in the fight or on global warming for years what's your take what's interesting to me is you know you can look at a new can say it's not enough and you can also say that it's ethical that i think probably both of those things are true. what's interesting to me is the genesis is i would argue that as i did explain in the book like an impossible take a little while that without the citizen pressure i don't think any of this would have happened and history in progress it's really linear it's not like you're always iraqi or moves to be moved to see it moves to d.c. so for example the keystone fight which is still in some level up in the air unresolved all that pressure i write about be in nebraska a friend of mine for the best. writer but not necessarily an activist seen the keystone pipeline plan to come right near where she lives in lincoln nebraska taking not knowing what to do taking this radical step of holding

a potluck and by three or four people over talk about it still an obviously come up with any magic solutions they meet again they gather momentum they gather in a their ranch or in a brandy thompson who looks like john wayne long time republican who they were running just basically through his land he said i will not be but this lands in my family forever and so they make the symbol they have his life sized cutout saying stand with randy i will not be bullied and there was a moment where after basically the trans canada which runs keystone was they bought all the land along the way they went to the local officials and they said we might need to rent some are some space to store something can we give you money just in case they resist because it was actually a successful grassroots yeah and you know and they want to go and there's a university basketball game the trans canada logo goes up and boos there from this crowd of eighty thousand and then out i would argue multiplied by every single action on coal on keystone that is what shifts to me allowed to obama

or impelled obama which everyone wants to look at it to be able to take that stand and of course it's going to be much more of the same grow to your position has been working seriously on this for a long time the chamber of commerce has come out and said you know we're going to lose fifty billion dollars a we have a fifteen trillion dollars economy fifty billion dollars it's like what four weeks in iraq i mean it's a it's a drop in the bucket i don't know why anybody would think we should you know have our hair on fire over that and b. is that number even meaningful i mean what about all the all the jobs that will be created by putting scrubbers on power plants or moving alternatives or solar as you know houses are without initially i mean fifty billion dollars sounds like so much money but when you put it in context it's not necessarily the case and you have to also look at. the money that we will save by doing this you're going to reduce have one hundred fifty thousand less kids who have asked them a tax are going to save money in terms of people dying because of the pollution that's coming from these plants and like you said the jobs that stand to be created

retrofitting houses solar wind and so forth already are creating jobs across the country in red and blue states all over because these are natural resources that exist everywhere that can't be outsourced and for consumers what you've seen is you know a school that's becoming obsolete not because it's a war on coal but because more cheap and efficient and environmentally friendly technologies are coming on the market you see the prices on these renewable energy sources and things deficiency measures are going down so consumers do not have to assume that they're going to be paying hundreds of dollars more in fact you can see consumers saving money when you get these rules so for us it's a win win win situation you create jobs you improve public health and you have these environmental gains that also are incredibly important so so paul in the last minute we have loved politics and economics are not meeting each other and i think there is

a prison from the uses of the inevitability trap and it basically says it's inevitable there's nothing you can do is what people say or alternate in the trap of saying it's inevitable or good obama's taken care of it neither of those are true if we in fact say this is contingent on our actions on our further actions using the models that we have of the successes that have occurred where people been able to stop a coal plant push a politician push their corporate leader that's what ends up changing history and we don't know we don't know how it's going to unfold but we do know that it hinges on our efforts all margaret thank you so much for being with us thank you very much for coming up republicans are already politicizing the deal reached over the weekend to bring home american prisoner of war both bergdahl calling it an illegal abuse of power was this do. really illegal and what kind of effect will it have on future efforts to close down guantanamo bit.

of a problem it was terrible a problem very hard to make a plan to get along here a lot has never had sex with the earthquake there's no. place. for them to subdue the people.

this was in the washington well as submissive. is being suggested in the latest numbers among the media candidates for the prophecy of current issues actually back to a new doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer in the studio fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a race america's the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but one might give real alternatives before it's time to deal with the core of the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real cause of problem.

in the rest of the news bowe bergdahl is finally coming home on saturday president obama announced that he had reached a deal with the taliban that would send bergdahl back to the u.s. in exchange for the release of five taliban leaders from guantanamo bay bergdahl now a u.s. army sergeant was held captive by afghan militants almost five years after going missing from his base in afghanistan in two thousand and nine he is now recuperating and being debriefed at a military hospital in germany while the release of a prisoner of war is always an emotional experience a deal to bring bowe bergdahl home is expression fraught with controversy because of both the mysterious circumstances surrounding his capture and the nature of the people we release to get him back there are conflicting reports about what bergdahl

was doing when he was kidnapped and some right wing pundits even think he was trying to desert these people assert bergdahl may be a traitor and are outraged five dangerous taliban leaders some of whom were involved with attacks on american soldiers would be set free to bring him home in a classic blame the victim smear strategy even sarah pailin has weighed in trashing the young soldier president obama just one freedom for others however wonder if he was just on a reconnaissance or intelligence mission of some sort when he was captured after all the army has given him to promotions while he's been in captivity and there are no pending efforts to court martial him critics of the deal to bring bergdahl home say it puts a price on american scads it will only encourage the taliban to keep kidnapping more american soldiers they seem to have forgotten ronald reagan famously gave iran fifteen hundred missiles back in one thousand nine hundred five in exchange for three hostages being held in lebanon or the richard nixon gave south vietnam

prisoners of war in exchange for john mccain as expected can be. national republicans are intensely politicizing this issue and are calling the bergdahl issue or deal illegal during an appearance at m.s.s. b c this morning for example california congressman buck mckeon accused president obama of breaking the law by not notifying congress before releasing the five taliban detainees and so that the house would hold hearings on the bergdahl deal. although he said he had a disclaimer along with the he apparently didn't support the law he did sign it and now my perception is and i think it is of many he broke the law by not informing congress thirty days before we would fact called in for a hearing to look into this matter and with the house g.o.p. leadership to sign off to do that we will be holding hearings and. ultimately after the republican hysteria over whether bowe bergdahl is a traitor or settles down this issue the issue of how president obama can unilaterally release people from guantanamo bay may end up being the single most

important thing to come out of this story joining me now for more on the bergdahl deal and how it could impact the fight to close get our karen greenberg director of the center on national security affordable law school an alcove provide counterterrorism counsel for reprieve us. great to have you with us thank you for joining us let me begin with you let's start out by talking about the deal itself the the white house is supposed to give congress thirty days notice before they do these sorts of things what happened here and i understanding is the white house does generally give congress thirty days' notice but the president has invoked his executive power under article two of the constitution on this particular deal because of the exigent circumstances because of the fact my understanding is that sergeant bergdahl is health was in danger and there was an opportunity to close this deal immediately and the president invoked his executive authority under the

constitution to do that the republicans lie. having things both ways they like to say that we're in a war if we are in a war you can't have a war without applying the laws of war on or the laws of war prisoner exchanges are done not only frequently they are mandatory and the routine and their routine absolutely if we're ending hostilities at the end of this here then all the president has done is is put forward that exchange of prisoners by by a few months an exchange for one of our own soldiers and in fact as this war comes to an end his leverage to do this starts to diminish rather rapidly so karen the president ignored the reporting requirements and did this you don't laterally what sort of restrictions was he actually have and what does this how does this inform us about what he might what else he might be able to do with the get go i think that's the sixty four thousand dollars question here is you know if he can release these five guys from get well why can't he release the sixty plus people who back

during the bush administration were determined to have never ever committed any crime whatsoever and just been swept up in the hysteria. right well first let's just start with what you can and can't do when the national defense authorization act was passed for two thousand and fourteen you signing statement made an exception for just this kind of circumstance in which he said time when this may be an issue there may be sensitivity to some kind of negotiation going on so it's not unlikely or impossible that they knew that this negotiation with the underway or would eventually occur and so if signing statements mean anything then to some extent you he could say that he did this legally and with some kind of forewarning second of all what the president and the administration has have said is that they've read to congress in general terms about this kind of circumstance and and did give them thirty day notice in that way and they may call him on that but your

bigger question when is this me. for the closing of guantanamo and what does it mean for the president's intentions he has made it clear that this act in a number of acts in the past five months you've going to take an aggressive and strong leak and he is going to get one time up close before the end of his prey presidency and this act is rather aggressive and rather unexpected and if he's willing to do this then imagine all the other things that he could do that are much less political importance and they're going to cause him less trouble and it's setting the bar very very high and he's willing to go for it and so i think it's a it's a good sign for those of us who like to see one time a close one where another and i think he's going to live up to that promise that he made in the beginning to close it although not in this time the about him as he said he would i read that signing statement attorney just referenced earlier today and it was entirely in the context of closing gitmo back he said to the continued

the ongoing in the signing statement he said keep it open a. waste our resources be diminishes our credibility around the world and and see empowers our enemies. and i think he's right on all those points so if he's using that science statement why not do it for the whole thing a and it seems to me like the response of the republicans is going to be one of three things i just love your take on this one they're going to try to impeachable over it which they you know we get surprised. to they may sue him which would create a constitutional crisis if they took it to the supreme court and that would be particularly interesting given the current makeup of the supreme court or three there may not do anything at all in which case he may then go forward and just say ok i'm going to i'm going to use the same thing but you know when bush was doing signing statements that in large part contradicted laws many of us were saying wait a minute this isn't legal so you know what's the current state of the art on that

what are your thoughts on what i just saw one time i think that. again like going with the president invokes his article article two power and says that pursuant to the signing statement that i'd now have the power to release kuantan the bay detainees unilaterally to ensure the republicans come back big and come back and try to impeach him but they've been on notice as karen said for years that this exchange could happen i think it would be extremely difficult for them to try and make a case that they had no notice of this in an input so an instance or as my constitution signing statements are not in the constitution but i believe investor rice needed an article to argument as well when she spoke about this and she said that under executive power the president does have the power to do this as the commander in chief executive order in time of war exactly he has a duty to bring back our soldiers and if this is the way to do it this is a time honored way of doing it well that makes perfect sense for a prisoner swap but for closing guantanamo the same rationale be applied absolutely

and so for closing guantanamo the same rationale has to be applied and this is a great opportunity for those of us who specialize in international law to make this distinction is that at guantanamo we have several different categories of people there the taliban are not the same as. the taliban are distinct from the general population of guantanamo who were swept up who never had anything to do with hostilities against exactly we have about thirty seconds left here and your thoughts on where this is going to go both politically and legally. in terms of the release of these individuals i think it's going to be a fait accompli i think the fact that the united states is pulling down its troops is bringing to an end the authorization producing military force and the rationale for holding these people anyway but more important i think this is obama drawing a line in the sand and saying i'm doing this and you're going to have to go to the ends of impeaching needs doing whatever it is because i'm doing this and that's where it's going to stand. well thank you very much karen it's the. accomplish and

thank you for everything her expertise. is the good the bad and the very very now frigidly ugly the good chile is on friday the tech specs rex restaurant chain released a statement asking its customers to stop bringing guns into the restaurant created chiles p.r. team the company decided changing its policies regarding open carry a firearm because it recognizes that the open carry of firearms creates an uncomfortable atmosphere and is not permitted under many local liquor laws fast food chain sonic released a similar statement on friday as well both moves come after chipotle a announced a no guns allowed policy earlier in may restaurants are places to eat not war zones

but on chili's for helping make that clear the bad adam carolla in a recent interview with the daily caller the comedian and former host of comedy central's the man show said that he thinks that rich people are better than poor people check it out. if you're saying you're advocating it as opposed to kind of oh those who demonize well they're. taking a step further they're better than poor people they just star of i've hung around with plenty of poor people now hung out with rich people there they work harder generally more focused more maybe this is supposed to be some sort of joke out and is after all a comedian but the sort of satire makes fun of the powerful not the power of those who are saying that rich people are better than poor people isn't funny it's just offensive and most of all it's not true and the very very ugly todd concannon the south carolina republican operative is well known in the social media

world for his crass planetoids. over the past few days he's taken his act to a whole new level calling for the execution of newly freed p.o.w. bowe bergdahl and his father for treason concannon claims bergdahl defected to taliban earlier this morning for example a tweet saying that he would push for execution during the next republican administration and his dad to commit treason needed. whatever happened to supporting the troops this is insanely ugly. coming up over the weekend a group of rich people got together to talk about ways to raise taxes the rich seriously. came out of it and one of the millionaires who was there right after the break.

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i think. i'm. screwed news according to the associated press the media and c.e.o. pay package hit ten point five million in two thousand and thirteen or in the first time median c.e.o. pay has hit eight figures since the a.p. began keeping track it's hitting this level because median compensation for c.e.o.'s has increased by more than. fifty percent over the past four years unfortunately working class americans haven't been so lucky average weekly wages for working class americans rose by just one point three percent last year and c.e.o. compensation has increased a staggering one hundred twenty seven times faster than working pay over the last

thirty years right now the ratio of c.e.o. pay to worker pay in america is two hundred fifty seven to one in the fast food industry it's four hundred seventy to one and in some industries it's over a thousand to one this is not good for america or for america's economy fortunately some groups are trying to do something about america's growing economic inequality epidemic over the weekend the patriotic millionaires for fiscal strength held a conversation between senator elizabeth warren and economist thomas piketty whose most recent book capital in the twenty first century as reignited the debate over america's economy and income inequality joining me now for more on this weekend's conversation and on income inequality in america is morris pearl patriotic millionaire and investor morris welcome. thank you tom thanks for joining us for those who don't know who are the patriotic millionaires what is this group. we're group of people who became wealthy because we had the good fortune of being born

we're growing up we're making our fortune in the finest country in the world where we have the backing of the government and all the programs and infrastructure provided by the government and by the people of america to help us become extremely wealthy hot why was it important to bring together senator warren and thomas piketty and and how did the conversation go. well those are two of the people who really made the case that inequality in america is really causing a problem everybody knows that any quality is growing and inequality is getting worse and i think the case. that they made is that it's really giving this feeling of unfairness to people and really the people most of the people in america are really getting with feeling that the game is really rigged and it's rigged against them. in vats that cate's that were that there that they both were trying to make

in different ways are you essentially in agreement then with warren buffett when he said yes there's a class war in america and my class is winning. yes sure i the people in our class to put it that way have huge advantages that the rest of the people just don't have and i think some of us realize that it's not because god's countenance shine down upon us it's because we've happened to have the good fortune of being wealthy and the system the tax rules and the rest of the system is just rigged in favor of the rich getting richer and the poor not getting richer and men usually getting poorer themselves. so why do you think wealthy americans should pay more taxes. and and what do you think about this for me most of the wealthy people as job creators that i think frank once proposed about six years ago get a wealthy people need to pay their fair share of taxes and that means pay more than

the poor people pay the wealthy people are the ones who've been able to get this huge advantage from the infrastructure from the systems from the everything from the educational system to the internet that has been provided by the people that came before them and they have to pay a fair share in order to allow those who are less wealthy to have their turn to climb up the ladder and become wealthy themselves i think that the. the the meme of paying their fair share is really what's important here and you know what just very quickly why do you think so many politicians in washington d.c. are opposed to raising taxes on people like yourself on that because the people they listen to are the wealthy people i was at in meeting with a senior member of the senate leadership recently who said it was good that he had

to go to fundraisers because that's when he heard from regular people but the regular people are not the ones paying a thousand in two thousand dollars to go to a cocktail party for a few minutes regular people weren't there at all unless they were the bartenders. but i think too many politicians have just been insulated for so long from regular people who don't pay thousand dollars to go to a fundraiser that they've kind of think that the wealthy are their only constituents it's amazing they've been bubble eyes and morris pearl thanks so much for being with us and thanks for being a patriotic billionaire. we try thank you. in other news this time for republicans to show us if they really care about america's vets in the wake of the v.a. scandal senator bernie sanders. has introduced legislation to greatly expands veterans' benefits among other things the veterans' trust act would authorize the v.a. to lease twenty seven new health facilities in eighteen states and would authorize

emergency funding to hire new doctors nurses and other health care providers ever since the v.a. scandal broke republicans and have popped and puffed about how already judged they are and how much they say they care about america's veterans but time after time republicans in washington over the past six years have filibustered bill after bill that would have expanded veterans' benefits and could have potentially prevented the v.a. scandal in the first place by introducing this new legislation senator sanders is giving republicans a chance to put their money where their mouths are and do what's right for america's vets joining me now for more on this is marianne williamson independent candidate for congress representing california's thirty third congressional district mary ann welcome back. thank you so much tom thanks for it's great to see you what's your take on senator sanders proposed legislation i think you asked me what i think of the bill that my sound is very very light i think it's a great bill of course i think it's shameful the way we don't take better care of our medicare of our veterans here we have republicans who are talking about

spending six hundred billion dollars in tax cuts for businesses and are resisting a twenty one billion dollar bill that would help our veterans even more importantly though i think we need to deal with the fact that there are so many veterans needing medical care to begin with because they were in ill be gotten military adventures to begin with so i think we need to you know franklin roosevelt said we need to do more than end war we need to end the beginnings of all wars so that's why i would love to sign things such as the department of peace building bill because we need to have a far more sober and conscious and responsible appraisal of how and where and when we use our military to begin with remarkable when you are out on the campaign trail there in california are you hearing from bad trends are you are you are you hearing you know yes what do you think yes yes we have over seven thousand homeless veterans here in los angeles and in my district in congressional district thirty

three tom we have all this land that was given in perpetuity back in the late eighteenth hundreds as land to be used pacifically for wounded military veterans and instead it is completely privatized and while it is making money nobody even knows exactly where all this money is going. to car rental places and so forth you have homeless veterans who are sleeping outside the gates and baking outside the gates so this is certainly one of the things that i care about and i would be very very passionate about if elected to the house that started what are the other. what are the other major issues that you see before congress right now that you're hearing as you are campaigning for for the house of representatives here to replace . everyone. well you know the segment that you just had on about the patriotic millionaires it was very inspiring to hear that gentleman recognizing the issue of income inequality and acknowledging of course that the reason we have that horrible gap in income inequality is because of the breakdown of democracy itself in this

kind of corporate takeover of the u.s. government so on this campaign is have talked about the fact that money in politics is like a cancer that's eating our democracy that it's the issue underlying all other issues that getting the money out of politics is the greatest moral challenge of our generation that if elected i will see this is a mandate to add my voice in whatever way possible to the move towards a constitutional amendment that will get the money out of politics outlaw the undue influence of money and there are a lot of knotted heads tom people understand this people also care about shrinking civil liberties and expanding domestic surveillance so i think this is a time of very pregnant moment i think it's in the eyes that a lot of americans are waking up right now and going what is going on here. i think you're absolutely right and changes in the wind very very much i can't hear a word oh you can't you can't can you hear me no. and i really i could just hear you say can you hear me now that ok i'm trying to make it out so what was your last

question well i actually had nasa was question with the primary tomorrow my question was what do you think are the biggest issues facing america i think you've touched on some of this but we have a couple more minutes if you'd like to. expand on those thoughts where where should america go and have you had any you know lobbyists or rich people come to you and say hey wait a minute should be changing your policies you should be you know you should be working for tax cuts. right well the proposition of my campaign is that you have two choices you can perpetuate the political status quo or you can disrupt the political status quo and i believe that we need to disrupt it and that's because it's increasingly ridiculous for us to look to the political establishment to fix this problem of income inequality because the political establishment created it as your last guest was saying it through banking policies to trade policies and

through tax policies so we need a fundamental pattern in eruption now that's not going to come about through a system in which two major parties are so beholden to that money abolition came from the people suffered came from the people civil rights movement came from the people the people speaking first and then political parties are supposed to come take it from there we now have the the tail that's wagging the dog and that's why people have a real listening to my independent candidacy you know tom i've been a lifelong democrat and i would caucus with democrats but like bernie sanders i want to be a a member of the house who is an independent because i believe that it will take independent voices who are not shackled by party dogma and doctrine and strategizing at this time to be able to name the deeper disease with the political establishment does is it deals with the effects of our problems but it doesn't deal with the cause it deals with the symptoms sometimes but not with the disease itself . that's because that system is so diseased but it's like

a medicine until you name the disease you don't know what medicine to take in any situation until you name the problem you can't claim the solution so people are hearing this and i think we're in a moment where people are ready to act i can tell you more about that when the results come in tomorrow night but i think that so far the men momentum is very very strong and whether it's my election or anybody else's i think that these ideas that you talk about on your program that so many people articulating now it's going to be given political have to a whole new way in the united states and that i feel very very sure you know i absolutely agree and if i lived in the thirty three thirty third district in california maria i would be going to the polls tomorrow to vote for you thank you so much for joining us thank you coming up right now a little boy is fighting for his life after one of our nation's hyper militarize swat teams threw a flash bang grenade into his crib what does this horrifying tragedy say about the state of policing in america or on that night's daily take.

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so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes those the firesign theatre's is really think you know. and i'll go with your what you're hearing you're right. that you're your mother i mean you go what is wrong. from the late one nine hundred sixty s. through the early one nine hundred seventy s. northern california was terrorized by the so-called zodiac killer zodiac killer murdered four men and three women between the ages of sixteen and twenty nine and left behind letters with cryptograms despite a variety of promising leads the identity of the zodiac killer has remained a mystery for over forty years but that mystery could be solved so if you think that the identity of the zodiac killer will always remain a mystery everything you know is wrong joining me now is gary l.

stewart author of the the most dangerous animal of all searching for my father and finding the zodiac killer gary welcome. thank you for having me tom thanks for joining us why did you initially start looking for your birth father. you know i was raised in an adoptive home and was always curious about my identity and so the day my mother my biological mother came calling i decided that i wanted to meet her and i did so within a matter of two weeks and that reunion was so fulfilling for me that i just knew the next step was to you know meet my biological father and when did you begin suspecting that your biological father your birth father was actually so diac. my search for my father started out at the end of two thousand and two so i had known my mother now for about six months and machine enlisted some some help of some

friends in the same francisco police department to help her she she subsequently married her second husband wrote a go for it was the first ever african-american homicide inspector in the san francisco police department and he actually worked the zodiac case so he died in ninety eight and when she contacted me in two thousand and two she quickly went to her friends and her husband's former colleagues in the department to help track down a missing person to help me find my father and somewhere along the way i asked for as much information is is they had on my father and they revealed to her and i that the information in my father's file was so heinous it would destroy me. and and they said what was in that file would make what he seen what he did to me and

my mother and that was great and child abuse. make that scene in consequential compared to what's actually in his file they encouraged my mother to have me just drop this whole thing and trying to find my father and they knew because i told them that my father was deceased i told him that i had found that he had died in mexico city and that he had left other siblings in vienna austria and my not knowing the correct information was handwringing me from stablish in a relationship with my half siblings in austria so they knew everything they knew what i knew but they still encouraged me to drop it when. i did i did and three months later with all thoughts of my from my father and finding him in hopes of a reunion pushed to the back of my head. i sit down and watch the documentary show on the cold case file for the zodiac killer and i see the wanted poster come

up and the hair stands up on the back of my neck and my son looks at the screen and he says hey dad it's you. and so i go to my office to get a photo the only photo i had of my father at the time was and it was given to me by the same francisco police department and i was told by an officer in internal affairs that it was an old d.m.v. photo i would later find out it was actually his mugshot from one nine hundred sixty two right but my mother and i took that photo that i had framed that was my inspiration for my search for him back into the living room and showed my son i said no it's not it's not me it's my father was. what you know you're not the first person is claimed that a relative was the zodiac killer. are the police taking your your claims seriously we have about a minute left. you know i've i've heard the initial response to the book

publication since then my biological mother actually asked if she could help me and and she reached out to the inspector over the cold case files which includes a soviet and he promised to her to follow up with her request there any evidence i mean your d.n.a. is readily available if his is available it should be fairly easy to match them right that they have biggs i talked to a journal journalist with the chronicle last week and he said that the san francisco police department had no confidence in the sample that they have on file for the zodiac you know that's unfortunate but that wasn't the case in two thousand and four when lieutenant endlessly suomi. interesting so. so you think but you think you've nailed a very interesting gary l. stewart thanks so much for being with us sir. thanks for having me and now everything you know about the zodiac killer is right mate.

for tonight's green report last year wind energy production reduced carbon emissions by almost one hundred thirty million tons it's poured into a new report from the american wind energy association that's the equivalent of taking twenty million cars off our roads and the benefits of this form of clean energy don't stop there wind energy is also reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by almost three hundred fifty million and nitric oxide emissions by more than two hundred million million pounds every year at the same time the cost of producing electricity with wind has dropped dramatically thanks to improvements in technology the cost of wind energy has dropped forty three percent just in the last four years and there are multiple wind energy projects in the works right now that will

produce more electricity further reducing carbon emissions and continuing to lower the cost of green energy science and the math are completely clear we have the ability to make the switch to clean energy in developing more wind and solar plants will put prices within reach of every american. occupied army is our walking america's streets right now one year old toddler was severe burns is clinging to life in a georgia hospital after a swat team barged into the house where he is family were staying and mistakenly threw a flash bang grenade into his crib this past wednesday members of the cornelia georgia police department swat team entered the house where the toddler and his family were

steyn searching for an alleged drug dealer who they say was living in the home as well and who they say was armed and dangerous because the suspected drug dealer had previous weapons charges swat team officers had a no knock warrant which meant they could enter the house without warning and without checking to see if there were any children inside. now a little boy is struggling to survive unfortunately incidents like this are becoming all too common in america that's because america's police forces have become like an occupying army hyper militarized for the benefit of our nation's military industrial complex all across our country local cops are kicking in doors swat teams are carrying weapons of war and warrants are becoming things of the past fortunately there's a way to change all this restore sanity to local policing and to put weapons of war back where they belong back in one thousand nine hundred four the clinton administration created something called the cops program the federal community

oriented policing services see o.p.'s program provides resources for local police forces across america intended to help those forces become more involved in their communities the goal of the program is to create more police officers like madison wisconsin police officer katie adler. unlike regular patrol cops ever spends much of her time in crime ridden highly at risk neighborhoods getting to know the people she serves and building lasting relationships along the way she's the perfect example of community policing. officer katie adler starts her day like most other cops coming to work checking my email but it doesn't last long this is packer townhouse apartment complex the complex is one of a half dozen under adler's watch and one she patrols on her own two wheels her presence isn't always expected something a lot of police. did they were either cut police on our own no one called the

police we just came here you know i like to walk around see you guys and stop there are nearly six hundred apartment units on her beat and it's rare to find someone she doesn't know i don't think i've ever met you know be told what is your name arthur nice to meet you and officer katie those she knows will fall over i'm like the pied piper sometimes that's ok it all even though officer katie doesn't have any kids of her own she has plenty here. meanwhile european countries have been relying on community policing for years to take sweden for example back in one nine hundred seventy two the swedish government created a national center for research development and coordination of policing with the goal of fighting and reducing crime at its social and community levels and in one thousand nine hundred two local policing committees began popping up all across wheaton these committees in two hundred plus communities across the country worked hand in hand with local police forces community leaders schools and other groups to

improve living conditions and to reduce crime. unfortunately here in the united states funding for community policing has seen a steady decline since the cops program was first introduced in the meantime the use of swat teams has exploded they virtually didn't exist in this country back in the one nine hundred seventy s. and one nine hundred eighty s. now they're everywhere. in two thousand and ten seven hundred ninety two million dollars was a lot of the form of federal grants under the cops program for community policing local police forces but by two thousand and twelve that number had shrunk to just one hundred ninety nine million dollars the bush administration had taken a real meat axe to it as had the republicans in congress and now there are fewer and fewer officer kati's and more and more hyper billet arised local police forces cops looking like mutant ninja turtles that are breaking down doors first throwing

flash bang grenades and asking questions later rather than being viewed as community members america's police forces tragically are being increasingly viewed as an occupying army and that needs to change community policing needs to be a priority in our country once again with the changes shouldn't stop there we also need to put weapons of war back in the hands of real military forces like the national guard and pay or cops better while holding them to higher stand. it's only then can we make sure that no more one year old. are hanging on to life by a thread because a flash bang grenade went off in their crib. and that's the way it is tonight monday june second two thousand and fourteen and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your.

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